There is a new way to display Wikipedia content: WikiMindMap. Nice to view but it seems there are more ethanol related hazards…
Category Archives: Joke
Every rule can be broken, but no rule may be ignored
.. is the central rule of typography but is it also valid in science? More on LaTeX writing and presentation at the blog above.
On the fast lane
Thanks to C.S.J. for telling me about the studies of Robert Levine and others.
The pace of life in cities around the world is literally getting faster, a study shows.
Psychologists have measured the speed at which people walk and discovered a 10 per cent increase in the past decade. The findings, from 32 countries, reflect the increasing numbers of people living in the fast lane.
The page above Continue reading On the fast lane
Fit for Fat or so
“Fit statt fett” is a program discussed today in German parliament. Although all experts agree on the problem they disagree on goals and methods, saying that this is a waste of money by overweight experts sitting round the table. Continue reading Fit for Fat or so
The search for the worst sound
There is a nice online study by Trevor Cox on bad vibes which reminds me to a recent comment in Nature: Let the people sing … The most recent development is certainly the digitalorchestraleague postmodern conductors will have game consoles to arrange sound files.
Human head with wrong orientation?
There was a funny comment by Friedemann Schrenk in a recent radio duo podcast [link to br online] that the human head sits with a wrong orientation on the human body as the pipelines for food and air cross over. Continue reading Human head with wrong orientation?
Random
What is a random figure? Computer may be biased when true random numbers are needed (for example for cryptography). Here is a truly random generator, use it at your own risk…
Do it yourself epidemiology
Show me your desk
Anglia English bookshop, München, Schellinstrasse
Hypomania
The Lancet has a comprehensive review of bipolar disorders- finally I learned about the distinction between type I (includes mania) and type II (hypomania). BTW the author thinks that there is no sound evidence for the DSM-IV priority for mood changes; Kraepelin had no priority for mood, thinking or activity altering changes after all). Continue reading Hypomania
A patch of the patch of the patch of the …
Following the last Microsoft patch day, my laptop started with this quite unusual error message Continue reading A patch of the patch of the patch of the …
Ransom note
sorry for that but running a server without any ad clicks is difficult…
More statistics
indexed.blogspot.com has many interesting data visualizations – I like them!
A more serious approach for interpreting health statistics can be found in the Lancet. Continue reading More statistics
Science dresscode
Sciencesque has noticed it first: T shirts at Biomed Central for sale. Do your really want that shirt?
Falling asleep
A new study in Science now finds that facts and experiences were better recalled from memory when subjects were cued with a scent during the memorization process and again during slow wave sleep.
Re-exposure to the odor during slow-wave sleep (SWS) improved the retention of hippocampus-dependent declarative memories but not of hippocampus-independent procedural memories. Odor re-exposure was ineffective during rapid eye movement sleep or wakefulness or when the odor had been omitted during prior learning. Concurring with these findings, functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed significant hippocampal activation in response to odor re-exposure during SWS.
I wonder how this could be used for preparing presentations, situations where a persons typically fall asleep during or after the session ;-)